But silk is versatile and it goes beyond optics.

And she's an optometrist in St. Petersburg, and she plays with optics.

This is taken through a fiber optics microscope. It's down inside the nest.

India has put together a connectivity mission in Africa, using fiber optics and dedicated satellite.

In the beginning you see the ants just kind of engaging with the fiber optics microscope.

So, we modified the optics of the camera in order to mimic the baby's visual acuity.

And this animation here shows you one example of the techniques that we use, called adaptive optics.

I came up with a solution to this problem, and I came up with a solution based on adaptive optics for this.

This is Symphony Space on 90th Street and Broadway, and the type is interwoven into the stainless steel and backlit with fiber optics.

This technology works by introducing a mirror into the telescope optics system that's continuously changing to counteract what the atmosphere is doing to you.

And finally, I'll give you one last example of free perhaps the most powerful of all. I mentioned fiber optics their abundance tends to make things free.

Business capital includes private companies factories, machines, transport equipment, and information systems. Infrastructure includes roads, railways, power and water systems, fiber optics, pipelines, and airports and seaports.

Coin sized mirrors on the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 and Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacements units have since served as quot contact lenses quot for HST.

A woman named Joanna Aizenberg, at Lucent, is now learning to do this in a low temperature process to create these sort of lenses. She's also looking at fiber optics.

Down at the very base of it, there's fiber optics that work better than ours, actually, to move light, but you can tie them in a knot they're incredibly flexible.

And you probably didn't realize it's going to do all these things but full of solenoids, and fiber optics, and computers and all this kind of stuff. The highest resolution out of Japan.

So this is a work that we were very intrigued with, working with the aesthetic of fur embedded with thousands of tiny different sizes of fiber optics, which twinkle like the night sky.

Free is something that comes with digital, because the reproduction costs are essentially free. It comes with IP, because it's such an efficient protocol. It comes with fiber optics, because there's so much bandwidth.

The academics who were overseeing this work thought that that was too frivolous, so we built deadly serious applications like this optics prototyping workbench in which a toothpaste cap on a cardboard box becomes a laser.

With that capability, Uzbekistan is prepared to expand its cooperation with the Government of Afghanistan in other areas, including geological prospecting and the laying of local and international telecommunication lines linked to international fibre optics communication lines.

And the blue hoods helped us with two things one, we could easily erase their heads and we also put tracking markers on their heads so we could recreate the camera motion and the lens optics from the set.

Many of these findings preceded the highly successful servicing mission in December 1993 when astronauts on STS 61 replaced several faulty parts and installed a sophisticated package of corrective optics to compensate for the spherical aberration in HST apos s primary mirror.

According to a thesis published in German magazine Optics , a group of researchers at the Air Force Engineering University of China claimed that installing such a laser on a satellite would be enough to effectively clean up space at least, according to the simulated results, that is.

With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state of the art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects black holes. She shares evidence that a supermassive black hole may be lurking at the center of the Milky Way.

We developed some other technology called spider optics, and Craig Ventner asked me to make an announcement here this morning we re going to be building a beautiful, little, small version of this unmanned, super deep for his boat to go and get back some deep sea DNA stuff.

A seamless and integrated satellite, fibre optics and wireless network to be provided by India will connect five universities, 51 learning centres, 10 super speciality hospitals and 53 patient end locations in rural areas all over Africa and will provide videoconferencing facilities connecting all 53 heads of State and Government in Africa.